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[US] Harvard Crimson 9 Jan. 🌐 The inveterate ‘grind’ may pursue his favorite study all day long with no interruption from noisy neighbors. [Ibid.] 13 Feb. The student who studies only for marks, the conventional ‘grind,’ is one of the poorest products of a college.
at grind, n.
[US] Harvard Crimson 20 Nov. 🌐 Even the mucker element [...] was more in sympathy with the unfettered student and the lurking proctor, than the peremptory and unromantic system of the officials of modern and un-civil law. [...] The Port is our vampire. Her government runs streets for shops through our sacred soil, her peelers interfere with our after-dinner reveries, her people crowd our conveyances to Boston, her factories disgust us. Her mucker roams in freedom through our sacred yard, her maiden robs the freedom of the student’s heart.
at mucker, n.1
[US] Harvard Crimson 18 June 🌐 KIND-HEARTED INSTRUCTOR (who has asked Mr. Phlunk all the simple questions he could without getting an answer, and who does n’t want to dead him utterly).
at dead, v.
[US] Harvard Crimson 29 Oct. 🌐 That’s enough, – / No more guff. [Ibid.] 21 Dec. I met an old and learned man, / And asked him ‘What is “guff”?’.
at guff, n.1
[US] Harvard Crimson 18 June 🌐 ‘To go on a hoot’ is the last Williams slang for a toot, howl, or bust.
at hoot, n.3
[US] Harvard Crimson 14 Jan. 🌐 The inevitable Biddy, with all her old-world ignorance thick about her.
at biddy, n.2
[US] Harvard Crimson 22 Feb. 🌐 When he wishes to say that he has made a ‘spurt,’ or a ‘rush,’ or a ‘flunk,’ he calls upon words that would assuredly be distracting to the classic Corneille.
at flunk, n.1
[US] Harvard Crimson 23 Jan. 🌐 She asks me how I’d say that I was – well, I was ‘mashed’ unless I used slang. Why, I’d a good deal rather say ‘I’m perfectly gone;’ that isn’t slang, and it means just the same.
at gone, adj.1
[US] Harvard Crimson 23 Jan. 🌐 She asks me how I’d say that I was – well, I was ‘mashed’ unless I used slang. Why, I’d a good deal rather say ‘I’m perfectly gone;’ that isn’t slang, and it means just the same.
at mashed, adj.
[US] Harvard Crimson 22 Feb. 🌐 When he wishes to say that he has made a ‘spurt,’ or a ‘rush,’ or a ‘flunk,’ he calls upon words that would assuredly be distracting to the classic Corneille.
at rush, n.
[US] Harvard Crimson 12 Jan. 🌐 Moreover [...] the graduates afloat in the hard work of life ‘do not go muckers’ in anything like the same proportion; do not, when they fail, go under so hopelessly, or take to drink or disreputable courses so often.
at mucker, n.1
[US] Harvard Crimson 20 Dec. 🌐 In the Vassar girl’s classification all males are ‘men,’ and all females ‘cows,’ with the usual intensive adjectives strung before. [...] one Princeton man, under the encouraging smile of his ‘cow,’ slipped spoon after spoon to the inside pocket of his coat.
at cow, n.1
[US] Harvard Crimson 9 June 🌐 [...] ‘a short, thickset young man with the countenance of a brakeman,’ of muckers, muckerish.
at mucker, n.1
[US] Harvard Crimson 9 June 🌐 [...] ‘a short, thickset young man with the countenance of a brakeman,’ of muckers, muckerish.
at muckerish (adj.) under mucker, n.1
[US] Harvard Crimson 18 Oct. 🌐 The articles vary from a serious appraisal of the Ivy League education to a less high-minded account of the social life of Harvard ‘wonkies’ and their Princeton and Yale counterparts, ‘ayools’ [sic: presumed mis-scan] and ‘weenies.’.
at tool, n.1
[US] Harvard Crimson 18 Oct. 🌐 The articles vary from a serious appraisal of the Ivy League education to a less high-minded account of the social life of Harvard ‘wonkies’ and their Princeton and Yale counterparts, ‘ayools’ [misprint ‘tools’] and ‘weenies.’.
at wonk, n.1
[US] Harvard Crimson 29 Mar. 🌐 Eliot [House at Harvard] is crawling with preppies.
at preppie, n.
[US] Harvard Crimson 22 Mar. 🌐 Despite its current appellation as the ‘Jock’ House, Winthrop remains one of the most versatile yet homogeneous houses at Harvard.
at jock, n.1
[US] Harvard Crimson 16 Oct. 🌐 They’ll pose in the Yard, then move on to the Boston Common to titillate 500 select Boston teeny-boppers with some more eye-popping sound.
at teenybopper, n.
[US] Harvard Crimson 17 Nov. 🌐 Night, the final play of the trilogy, is in every way the third act of the evening. It is an answer to the chaotic world depicted in the first two plays [...] It is both devastating and exhilirating, an even bigger mind-blow than Morning or Noon.
at mind-blower, n.
[US] Harvard Crimson 22 Apr. n.p.: Davies [...] has what superficially appears an easy task as Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B.; he must consistently be a pompous nurd. However, English nurdiness is not the easiest of qualities to maintain, particularly for a Welshman [etc.].
at nerdiness (n.) under nerd, n.
[US] Harvard Crimson 7 Mar. 🌐 The audience at a Harvard show is pretty unaware of techies--the backstage and front office people who organize, frame and run a production--except as names on the right hand side of a program.
at techie, n.
[US] Harvard Crimson 24 Nov. 🌐 They chant cheers as [...] unrefined as ‘A quart is two pints, a gallon is four quarts; Harvard men will eat Yale’s shorts’.
at eat my shorts! (excl.) under eat, v.
[US] Harvard Crimson 12 Sept. 🌐 A group of jocks stand on the Weld stairs. ‘Soccer!’ one shouts, ‘What kind of wussy sport is that? Look no hands! Nah, I’m just shittin’ ya.’.
at wussy, adj.
[US] Harvard Crimson 19 Mar. 🌐 And at 5 a.m. on a Sunday morning, there’s nothing better than a friendly face to welcome you back home as you take your ‘walk of shame’ past the BD [i.e. Bell’s Desk].
at walk of shame (n.) under walk, v.
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